Motivational Quotes

Music

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Music

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.